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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
An Important Decision.

The supreme court of California has Just
made unite an important decision. 1t has de-
cided in the case of the estate OF Andrew
Isri that a marriage to be legal must
ho made public. and the parties must I'VE
% LIIeband and wife Gin the face OF thelr
,,oi@bIorsr The decision IS CONSIDERED 70
practi ally dispose of the famous sharon cas- se
against Sarah Althea, for no no., PuDnoIs5 "'-7
ever given to the Sharon-hhi ilaii
Chicago Times
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
She Didn't.

81 hope you don't contemplate suicide
MADAME observed the patrolman at the ferry
docl- to a woman who had been hanging
around there for some time.
''Don't be a foolr she bluntly rephed.
''Take the case home to yourself. II you was
me. and you expected your husband to come
over on the next boat with woman he's try
ing to run away with; would you be thinking
of suicide or of breaking both their necksF -
Detroit Free Press.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

THOMAS 3. C0NNERH. the late civil war
and of the reconstruction process, he
acted as chief correspondent of The
Herald in Washington, and was the
trusted friend of President Johnson, Secre-
tary Seward Senator Sumner, Secretary
Stanton and other men of national repu-
tation He was educated at st. Johns college,
Fordham. Why he severed his connection
with The Herald has never been fully stated
His editorship of The Truth was short hVea,
and the paper itself has long since ceased 10
exist.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
A Flat NIagnifYing Glass.

Ascientifc novelty is lens which magnl-
fies yet is perfectly fat on both sides. 1t Is
made at Jena by the manufacturers of Pro-
feSsor Abbe'S new optical glass. The lens
consists of a single disc whose density varies
SO that its retroactive power decreases regu-
larly from the surface inward.
Traveller
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

Mexico, was very
well known some
years ago as the
managing editor of
The Herald, and
later as the editor of
The Truth, in New
York, although he
was, of course, bet
ter known among
journ alists than
elsewhere. He has
lived in New York
nearly all his life
time, with five
years exception,
when, at the most
exciting period of
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
SPORTING GOSSIP.
PugiIistic Matters-HOrse Racing, Base
ball.


Especial Correspondence
New YORK, April 6.
An item is going the rounds of the news
papers to the effect that Jack Dempsey has
offered to match Denny Costigan against any
140-pound man in the country for a contest 20
a finish. was chatting with Jack in his
Williamsburg residence only last Sunday,
and the "Nonpareil" informed me that the
whole thing was ridiculous in the extreme, as
in the first place he had made no such offer
and in the second place it would be impos-
sible for Costigan to come down to anything
like that weight. Dempsey thought the item
must have had its birth in the brain of some
imaginative pencil pusher who was hard up
for news q. ***
Another horse in the suburban, which /
think is worth watching, the more especially
as he has not been pounded" to any great
extent, is Rupert. With fremont out,
think Boaz and Rupert ought both to be
well worth following, at least, to a slight
extent. The reports from the Brown stables
as to the condition of the numerous "cracks"
are know, being ridiculed in many quarters
by those who consider themselves "fly," but
it does not in the slightest alter my opinion
that they are, in the main, correct.
***
. Teemer and Hamn have formally taken
charge of the training of the Cornell crew.
They are excellent coaches and viii get their
crew to the front if it is within the range of
possibilities. By the way, l shall have to dis
agree with both of these experts when they
say that Ned Hanlan can be outrowed by
Ten Eyclk Hanlan may or may not have
seen his best days, but he still has enough
speed left to defeat any Oarsman in the world
except Teemer, and he will confirm this state
ment in his races with both Gaudaur and
Beach. Just bear this in mind.
49,:
The Scotch c. 'rer Thistle, now being built
in England, will be 81 feat longer and 81
feet wider than the Galatea. She is expected
to do wonders, as her model is said to be
something entirely new and greatly con,
ducive to speed.
49,
Australia has not proven the wonderful
Eldorado for sprinters that it was supposed
to be, and several of them, see, are already
thinking of shaking the dust of the Island
continent" from their feet OCTY COHEN.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

The latest eulogist of Mrs. cleveland says
"Her mold and style are of the KIND tnat I'M
nroye with age and merge the gri INTO a
Grand woman who never fades OF becomes
Tnattractive.n
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
Germanr.s New Weapon.

an 71-'s4n is the official appellation of the
new weapon adopted by the German army
which, translated, or rather written out IN nun,
would signify: ''Manser, gun invented III
1871. changed into magazine gun 1854
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
Thomas Il. COnnerY.

Thomas B. Connery, who has just
come before the people again because of his
appointment to the Office of secretary of
the United States legation at the City Of
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

The epidemic nature of suicide is worthy of
remark. and it is q curious thing hatpeculiar
suicides bring on others of the same char
acter. A few days after the Ashtabula
bridge disaster the engineer committed suicide
by shooting himself with pistol through the
month. Within several weeks there were
number of suicides of this same nature in diff
ferent parts of the United States, and the same
is true of any peculiar form of suicide. In
1898 there were 800 suicides at Versailles, and
the disease became almost as epidemic as
though it had been the cholera. In 1906, 6Opeo-
ple killed themselves at Rouen. The French
have always been noted for felo de Sc.
THOMAS j. TODD
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

A San Francisco paper places the number
81 ooStarn visitors now at the various Call-
fa,-nia resorts at 10000. and preolcH une III
f..,T will he even greater another year.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

Pink yellow and green are among the SOLD
ccloYs in young rlcn i''
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16


Suicide was not considered crime among
many of the ancient nations, and Demos
themes. Themistocles and Hannibal ended
their lives in this way. Mark Antony killed
himself, and his sweetheart, Cleopatra, put the
poisonous asp to her breast. The Bible tells
how Samson pulled down the house upon
himself in order that he might destroy his en-
emies, how King Saul impaled himself upon
his sword, and how Judas Iscariot in his re-
rentance committed suicide. Mithridates
killed himself rather than be prisoner.
Cato, rather than live under the des-
potism of Caesar, stabbed himself. He
tainted. his wound was dressed, and he
was on the road to recovery. As soon
as be was able he tore off the bandages, let
out his entrails, and expired. Brutus killed
himself, and Zeno, the founder of the Stoics,
hanged himself at the ripe old age of SO. Di-
ogenes declared that the nearer to suicide the
nearer to virtue, and Lucretius and the cpl
cureans highly commended suicide
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

There were i'll the United States. according
to the census of 1880, during the decade fol
lowing the year 1870, over $500 suicides, of
whom 2,104 were men and 497 were women.
1t is thought, however, that this estimate is
much below the real number, and life in
surance company kept the account Of the
suicides reported in the daily papers for a
period Of four years. 1t was found that G,2S3
suicides were reported from February, 1882,
to February, 1886. Of this number All were
maids and ,315 bachelors. Two thousand
and fifty-three were husbands and SOS
were wives; so that the women in every
case seem to have had the best of it.
The suicides were the more numerous among
the fal.nnors, ana, by the way, the insane
asylums contain larger proportion of far
mers than men of any other class.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
Mr.. EDWIN BOOTH.
MR.. BOOTHS PRICES

Mr.. BOOTHS PRICES.
Parquette and Dress CT $3.50; First Circle,
81 so; Second Circle, 81; Gallery, SOC. Boxes
and stalls on first foot $40; Stalls on second
floor, $l2 each. The sale of seats will open at
the Theatre box Office on Thursday, April 18th,
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Arrangements have been made with the
Denver & Rio Grande, Utah Central and Utah
&Nevada roads to issue One-fare tickets for the
round trip during the Booth engagement from
Ogden, Bingham, Provo and Springville.
As there will be an unusual demand for seats
Manager Clawson advises the public to secure
their seats early.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
SUICIDES OF GREAT MEN.
Thomas Todd Tells How Some Noted
Men Have Died.

Special Correspondence
New YORK, April G.
Suicide seems to he on the increase, and
the number of public men who have COM
mitted felo de Sc runs well up in the tens.
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds suicide by
throwing himself down the elevator shaft in
the St Louis custom house last week is no
stranger than that of Preston King, who
drowned himself in the Hudson river by
leaping from ferryboat; or that of Felix
Mcconnell of Mississippi, who, after a long
spree, cut his throat in the Charles hotel, in
Washington. 1t is still q question in the
minds of many whether Edwin NJ. Stanton
did not die in the same way. It was stated
at the time that he died suddenly, but it was
whispered that the cause of his death was q
cut in his throat which was made by his own
hand. Stanton's messenger. who still works
III the war department, says that he aided in
the preparation of Stanton for burial, and
that there was no mark upon his throat
Gen. Joe Lane, who was so noted during the
Kansas troubles, killed himself within few
weeks of his 51st birthday. Politics, it is
said, was the cause of his death. The uncle
of John D. White, who was the speaker of
the Twenty-seventh congress, committed
suicide at Richmond, KY, by cutting his
throat. Jesse Thomas, once a senator from
Illinois, suicided in the same manner in 1850
An Ohio congressman named Stone. having
become a defaulter, committed suicide in
1865, and went to the cemetery to die. He
was found lying dead upon the graves of his
children. John Ewing, an Indiana congress
man, died in 1857 at Vincennes He was
found sitting in his chair, with sheet Of
paper upon which the ink was still fresh
lying beside him, the words upon which
were evidently penned just before his death
| ThaSe words were.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16
Here lies q man who loved his friends,
His God, his country and Vincennes.

His God, his country and Vlncennes.
Thomas Jefferson RuSk, Of Texas, com
mitted suicide after leaving the senate, away
back in the thirties. He shot himself, and the
cause of his death has always been involved
in mystery Congressman Hise, of the Thirty
ninth congress, who was once United States
minister to Guatemala, committed suicide on
account of insanity resulting from overwork.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, of Alabama, left
the congress of the United States in 1861 to
become a member of the Confederate con-
gress He died by pistol shot from his own
weapon, but whether the discharge of the
pistol was accidental or not is not known.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-16

Australia has not proven the wonderful
Eldorado for sprinters that it was supposed
to be, and several of them, see are already
thinking of shaking the dust of the Island
continent" from their feet OCTY COHEN.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
SPLENDID HOMES.

Every few days some paper sets up q
claim that its particular city will be dis
tinctively city Of homes. The EAGLE
never makes a claim for Wichita until
satisfied of its ability to make it good. Fol
years we have declared that Wichita had
the smoothest and most thoroughly shaded
avenues Of any city in Kansas. We nc
longer confine the assertion TO Kansas.
But now we come to make the claim that
Wichita is the city of homes, par excel
lence. For magnifcence. stately beauty,
varied styles of architecture, aud cost,
Wichita will from this summer on not only
lead the state in fue homes but will be
famcd for attractive residences. 1t will be
worth the while Of the admirer of the beau
tiful to come hundreds Of miles TO view
the homes Of Wichita.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

Ex-Secretary Bristow assures the presi
dent that he notes an improved tone in the
public service
Notwithstanding Mr.. Halstead's moder.
ate and judicious Endorsement of Sherman,
he is believed to be working with Whitlaw
Reid for Blaine
It Is limited that the New Hampshire
Democrats will assist in sanding General
Gilman Marston to the senate instead OF OK
Secretary Chandler, who is working hard
for the place.
The Atlanta Constitution says: A presi-
dent who recognizes, as Abraham Lincoln
did, that this is government OF the peo-
pie, by the people and for the people, can
not make any serious mistake.
Henry W. Grady writes of Cleveland's
prospects 1.-THE south is more than salts
fed with his record. and there will not be
a division of sentiment in any state from
Virginia to Texas on the question of his
denomination. He will carry every state
in the south into the convention and will
not lose half dozen delegates. In the
electoral college he will not lose single
vote from the SOUTH"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
HIS OWN MEDICINE.

An interview with Senator Dick Blue is
published in the Kansas City Times, in
which he is reported as saying:
Il understand that Governor Martin has
given it out that l cannot make the race in
the Second district. My advice to Governor
Martin is that he leave the politics of the
Second district severely alone, and attend
to his own affairs. He has not as vet sue
ceeded in filling the gubernatorial chair to
the satisfaction Of any very great number
of the people of Kansas, ana, until he does,
I should think 1t would be in bad taste for
him to attempt to fill the position Of gen
eral director in state politics.
While we have nothing to say about Mr.
Blues candidacy for congress, we think he
is the last man who ought to squeal, and
that so soon, about the governor interfer-
ing in outside politics. Law after law has
been enacted by the legislature, taking the
control of the offices of certain counties
and cities out of the hands of the people,
and placing them in the hands of the gov
ernor, and other similar laws were sought
to be passed, but failed. We may cite the
Jury commission law. and the metropolitan
police law Mr.. Blue was the author of
some of these laws, and the champion of
all of them. We have good reason to be-
lieve that the governor did not desire to be
clothed with these powers, and would
have much preferred to have let
the people control their own domestic
affairs But Mr.. Blue had purpose to
accomplish. and boosted these laws
through. By means of them the governor
holds in his hands the government of cities
of the first class, and virtually selects the
iuries in several counties in the state. This
is all right and proper, but when Mr. Blue
imasines the governor is using his infu-
ence to bring about certain results in the
politics of district in which he does not
live, it is a heinous offense Are the
chickens coming home to roest. II very
rarely fails that when men set themselves
about digging pitfalls for Others, it is their
fate to tumble in observation-disclosures
Chief
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
A PARSON ON WICHITA.

A traveller from st. Louis to the Pacific
writes up two column impression of the
Kansas boom. OF course Wichita, the in
SEPARATION of all the booms, was not forgot
ten. He cites the following:
Some queer stories of the booms are ex-
changed on the cars. A Clay Center man
went down to Wichita to visit his brother.
He caught the mania, paid $50 for an option
on piece of ground, and at once started
home to raise the money to complete the
payment of $1,000 At Emporia telegram
from his brother overlook him and it read:
Don't send money, have sold your lot
for 5000
OF course this doesn't come up to Rev
DIR. Boyd's story of the new made and the
sorrowful widower, who reached Wichita
without cent in his pocket and dog at
his heels, sold the dog for $40, invested
that in real estate and cleared $500 in just
two weeks. The wise layman will dry up
when the parson turns historian.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
AN OUTRAGE.

Some sweet, confding woman signing
herself Nellie Bly,, appeals to the editor Of
tho Emporia Republican for advice as to
the best and most efectual plan to rid her
self of the innumerable army Of able
bodied tramp peddlers who annoy house
keepers to death almost with their impu-
dence and pertinscity. The aforesaid edi-
tor instead of referring his modest yet
bright correspondent to the editor of the
EAGLE insults her by advising her to try
one of her biscuits on the next appearing
peddier. Such course upon the part Of
our indiscreet contemporary if persisted in,
will lose him his present standing with
nti-suffragists. The EAGLE is, for its
part, ashamed that an organ of our side
should show such want of consideration
to a womanly appeal
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
WICHITA'S PROSPECTS.
Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.

SpeeiaI p.6patcn 10 tno IiOOe OemOcrat
WICHITA, Kan, April 17.-Jay Gould
and party returned here yesterday, and
after being driven about the city for over
two hours went east over the st. Louis,
Fort Scott & Wichita When being driven
about the city, Mr. Gould remarked that
his predictions last fall, to the effect that
Wichita would soon be the leading city
west of the Missouri river, were being
realized more rapidly than he had expect
ed. Judge Dillon said that he used to
think they were pretty lively set of fell
lows up at Omaha, but that Wichita
beat anything he ever saw. Mr.. Clark
was here two years ago, and declar-
ed he could not recognize the
place or any of its features. Mr.. Gould is
very partial to Wichita and has arranged to
bring the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic
here The chief object of his trip to this
city was to perfect plans for entering the
Indian Territory and making i. directly
tributary to Wichita. The party was ac
companied from here by Col. NJ. NJ. Muir
dock, who had a conference with Mr.
Gould, which is not made public, but is
understood to be of great benefit to WITCH
tia. The Missouri Pacific system already
has three branches entering here, and will
soon have two more, which will throw
much more Of this valuable territory into
Wichita and ST. Louis control entirely.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
ON TO PUEBLO.

The surveying corps of tho D.. NJ. & A.
railroad staked out their line through Leo.
ii this week We understand the line is
now located through to the mountains.
We believe both this and the Santa Fee
road will be built to the west line of the
state, or further. before the snow flies. In
fact, at meeting of the D., M. & A.
directors, recently held at Wichita. it was
given out that their road was to be COM
pleted to the west line of the state in nine
ty days. We must have both these roads,
and possibly others, through Wichita Co.,
but to get them where they should go for
the greatest benefit Of the county,
and to secure others which might 9TH
erwise miss us entirely, may demand some
concert of action and organized effort on
our part. With that end in view, the call
published today for meeting to be held at
Leoti next week Saturday, was originated.
1t is desired that all parts of the county
should be well represented, and that free
discussion of the situation be held that
proper ways and means may be devised to
insure the desired result. Remember the
time appointed and come out to assist in
this matter which is of so much Importance
to all of us.-Leoti Standard.
Long before frost, trains will be running
direct from Leoti to the city of Wichita.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
FROM WINFIELD.
To the Editor Of the Daily Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Daily Eagle.
Winfield has laid off the Nancy Jane
system of government under which it has
chafed for two years past and has donned
regime that will dawn liberal era
make a city where all classes of people can
find warm welcome and the right sort Of
encouragement. Senator Hackney and his
shoulder hitting council have taken the
reigns and already change can be noted.
The new mode may not suit the prudes,
but it means business, and prosperity
means satisfaction.
With the abundant rains of the last few
days, the heavy immigration of capital and
brains, and the contamination of numcr
Gus enterprises, real estate has begun to
"fy"-shows an activity that borders on a
craze. A large amount of property changed
hands today, and the demand is strong,
with the rapid upward tendency always
accompanying fling" especially
where prices are as reasonable as they are
here The ground floor purchasers are
the lucky ones, and can't fail to strike it
rich.
The Winfield Light, Heat and Pow
er Company was organized today with
a paid up capital stock Of 500,
1t will proceed at once to the.bering for oil,
gas and coal. Experts having found indi
cations insuring, as they say success.
Today was D. NJ. & 4. payday and over
$50, 900 was paid out here to the iron-lay-
ers and graders. making things lively.
The grade through this city will be made
next week. The depot is located on the
corner of LOOMS and Sixth ave. Con-
tracts have been let in the last ten days for
twenty-seven new business buildings,
which will go up at once. A fine new
hotel, rival 10 the Breton is on its feet
and will start up within two weeks. With
the twenty buildings now going up rapidly,
this will make building boom of no small
dimensions